Effort to enact total abortion ban in Nebraska fails to submit signatures for a ballot initiative

LINCOLN — A ballot initiative that would have asked Nebraska voters to add a total ban on abortions to the state’s constitution will not be on the November ballot after failing to submit signatures needed.

The state currently bans most abortions after the first trimester, but includes exceptions for the life of the mother, as well as rape and incest.

Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen confirmed last week that the group – Choose Life Now – did not submit the required number of signatures to be on the ballot before his office closed on Thursday, which was the deadline.

The language of the proposed ballot initiative said “a preborn child is a person at every stage of development, beginning at fertilization. Wherever under Nebraska law the term ‘person’ is used or implied, it shall include such a child.”





https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/07/06/effort-to-enact-total-abortion-ban-in-nebraska-fails-to-submit-signatures-for-a-ballot-initiative/